25 Feb
2011
25 Feb
'11
5:49 p.m.
On 02/25/2011 05:33 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
the point is that both OS X and contemporary linux
have mechanisms
that prevent RT scheduling from locking up the system.
linux distributions have not adapted to this reality and thus they
still continue to make RT scheduling inaccessible to users by default.
Maybe that's because such security mechanism are too young in Linux?
Or maybe that any system-wide RT privileges are considered too dangerous?
In these circumstances, maybe that a JACK specific solution could make sense. It
would only need jackd to run as a privileged user (I don't mean root). Maybe
that this would make its way into major distributions more easily than
system-wide RT privileges.
Although I think that granting system-wide RT privileges with a limited runtime
sounds like the best solution. But maybe that this mechanism isn't considered
mature yet.
--
Olivier